For now I'm done with creating new pages of my comic. This is mainly because I've reached a poin which I think works a a sort of ending. This is with the introduction of a drug called 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. I've had the idea of turning the famous word from Mary Poppins into the main drug of my reconstruction of the film almost since I started the comic. I also think it would make a good title to the comic as there is a clear link to the film yet the fact that the title isn't just a variation of Mary Poppins (like calling it after the Mary Poppins character in the comic, Cherry Robbin) hopefully suggests a certain amount of removal as well from the original source.

 Here is a reference photo I took of myself for the final panel in the comic in which the drug is introduced. I used a pound coin as it's the same shape and a similar size to what I imagine the drug to look like. I needed a reference for this panel because it's important so I didn't want it to look overly crude or awkward. I'd have also had trouble drawing the hand and getting it correct in relation to the face without a reference .
 


Here are my designs for the drug and a practice sketch of the above. I settled quite quickly on the face that I wanted to go on it. I made sure it was a simple design and could be easily replicated. I then decided I wanted it to be in colour so I tried it in a range of colour. I finally settled on using red ink which actually comes out pink. I've decided that in every appearance the drug will be in colour. This is something that I may do with most or all drugs in the comic. Similar to how in Sin City comics certain objects/figure have touches or colours on them to draw attention to them or show them as somehow important or dangerous.
I also think that the pill design could work for the front cover of the comic which is something I've been thinking about recently. It is simple and I'd hope for it to be iconic. When coming up with front cover ideas though I realised the reason I'm so drawn to this idea is because it's like the cover of the graphic novel 'Watchmen' by Allen Moore, artist Dave Gibbons. I've posted pictures of both the iconic symbol (source :http://www.comicvine.com/forums/gen-discussion-1/what-was-a-better-flim-watchmen-or-the-avengers-686407/) and the front cover to the complete graphic novel (source: http://www.amazon.co.uk/WATCHMEN-TP-Alan-Moore/dp/0930289234). As you can see there are some strong similarities between that design and mine. I think this is even clearer if you look at one of my ideas for a cover where the pill is only partly on the page (not a great concern though since I'm not using that idea). I think that while the ideas are similar I can still go on with mine, especially as Watchmen is known as one of the all time greats of the comic medium so it would be natural for another comic to be seemingly paying some sort of homage to it.

A major problem I've had with designing a cover is that Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is such a long word that it doesn't really fit straight on the page. I thought of several ways around this: I could call the comic 'Supercalifragilistic' or split the 'Supercalifragilistic' and 'expialidocious' part of the word. I didn't want to do this because I wanted to keep the whole word and all the connotations that come with it so that my comic can play upon them.

This left me only one option. Figuring out how to put the whole word on the page without it being really squished. My solution was very simple, I scrapped my idea of only having some of the pill on the cover and instead put the whole thing on so that I could write around the top of the circle the name of the drug and it could fit with ease.